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How did Galileo's observations of Jupiter's moons help to show that the geocentric explanation is incorrect?
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Jupiter's moons orbited it and thus did not have a the earth as their axis of rotation.
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What is 3 of Galileos discoveries or inventions?
thermometer, telescope and the inclined plane
What was Galileos mother ocupation?
Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a lute player and music theorist. Galileo's mother, Giulia Ammannati, was the daughter of lumber merchant Cosimo Ammannati. She had no occupation. So she depended upon Galileo for her livelihood after her huband died in 1591.
What did Galileo conclude from his observations of Jupiter and Venus?
how much more immature can yall be ?! seriously!! ppl look this stuff up to get help, immaturity is for facebook and high school the heavenly bodies were composed of material substance just like Earth, not pure orbs of light.
How did Galileos observation of Jupiter and venus support Copernicus' model?
Galileo's discoveries with the telescope sowed doubts about the ancient Ptolemaic model which had the Earth at the centre. First, Jupiter's moons orbited round Jupiter and not the Earth, the first objects that had been discovered that were not orbiting the Earth. Secondly the discovery of the phases of Venus raised doubt about the Ptolemaic model, particularly the gibbous phase when, we now know, Venus is round behind the Sun as seen from Earth. In the Ptolemaic model Venus never goes behindthe Sun (as seen from Earth) and the gibbous phase cannot happen.By implying in the title of his book 'Dialogue of the two world systems' that there were only two models in contention, those of Ptolemy and Copernicus, Galielo insinuated that if the Ptolemaic model was incorrect the Copernican system must be correct. This was logically flawed because at the time there were two other systems in the public domain that both explained Venus's phases. These were the models of Tycho, which was geocentric, and finally Kepler's which was heliocentric.Of these four, Kepler's was eventually accepted by everyone after Newton's theoretical discoveries showed that Kepler's elliptical orbits for the planets agreed with the new theory of dynamics.
What did galileos observations confirm?
He made many experiments and observations in the field of physics in general.
Galileos observations seemed to indicate that?
Galileo's observations seemed to indicate that the heavenly bodies were composed of material substance just like Earth. Instead of pure orbs of light.
What was galileos accomplishment?
The telescope
Who were Galileos role models?
ryan shuck
What was the date of galileos discovery?
Which one are you referring to?
What was some of galileos inventions?
the funky worm
What was Galileos contribution?
Found planets and satellites.
What were the galileos siblings names?
Figure it out for yourself!
What is Galileos whole name?
Galileo Ross Galilei
What was galileos two girls name?
virginia and livia
When was galileos death?
January 8, 1642. He was 77
What was Galileo's moms nae?
what was galileos moms name
